ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,441, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Analog channel equalization and channel adaptation" was invented by Lizhi Zhong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vishal Varma (Fremont, Calif.), Yu Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Wenyi Jin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver circuit including mechanisms for analog channel equalization and channel adaptation is disclosed. The receiver includes a front-end circuit configured to generate a filtered signal by performing filtering of an incoming signal that includes a stream of data symbols. A sample recovery circuit configured to sample an equalized sign...